pferguson | November 9, 2019
The Soldier While taking part in operations with his company, of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, in the trenches south of Zillebeke, Montreal-born Private James Duncan Montgomery MacGillivray, age 41, was killed at 7:25 PM on 25 April 1916. Next-of-Kin As I search through James MacGillivray’s service record I learn from his attestation papers that […]
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Tags: 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, British War Medal, Chester Farm Military Cemetery, Culloden, James Duncan Montgomery MacGillivray, Memorial Plaque, Victory Medal, William MacGillivray, Zillebeke
Ian S. Williams | February 22, 2011
Reid was one of several pipers who played at the battle. He was captured along with 558 men by Cumberland’s troops and taken to England. There James was put on trial and accused of high treason against the English Crown. Piper Reid claimed that he was innocent because he did not have a gun or a sword. He said that the only thing he did that day on the battlefield was play the bagpipe
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Tags: 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, Culloden, Culloden Moor, Duke of Cumberland, Highland wars, instrument of war, Jacobite, Jacobite uprising, James Reid, Scotland